A petition of Henry Aitkin, master of the ship Port-Henderson, and Nathaniel Russell, of Charles-Town, merchant, was presented and read.

Ordered, That the said petition be taken into consideration to-morrow.

Ordered, That Mr. [Daniel] De Saussure, Col. [John Lewis] Gervais, and Mr. [Francis] Salvador, be a Committee to extract such parts, as they shall judge proper to be made generally known, from the intercepted letters lately taken from Moses Kirkland, and laid before this Congress on the 3d inst. and also from a letter formerly written by John Stuart, Esq; to the Committee of Intelligence, dated ————, 1775. And that the Secretary do cause copies of such extracts, certified by him, to be forthwith printed and published.